2020 FIREARM DEER HUNTING INFORMATION FOR CWD …

2020 FIREARM DEER HUNTING INFORMATION FOR CWD COUNTIES

SEASON DATES

? 1st Firearm Season: Nov. 20 - 22, 2020 ? 2nd Firearm Season: Dec. 3? 6, 2020 ? Muzzleloader-Only Season: Dec. 11 - 13, 2020 (Hunters

may also use a muzzleloader permit with a muzzleloader during 2nd Firearm Season Dec. 3 - 6)

HUNTING HOURS

One-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset. Persons hunting deer must have gun unloaded during hours when deer hunting is unlawful. See "Legal Hunting Devices" for description of unloaded muzzleloader.

PERMIT, LICENSE, & HABITAT STAMP REQUIREMENTS

Permit: Before hunting, you must sign your permit. Your deer permit shall be carried on your person while hunting.

License: In addition to your deer permit, you must have a valid Illinois Hunting, Sportsmen, Youth or Apprentice License unless you are:

? A person who is disabled and able to show proof of

disability in the form of one of the following:

a. A State Disabled Person I.D. card (available from the Secretary of State through the Drivers License Examining Station) showing a P2, P2A, H2, or H2A disability b. Veterans Disability card (at least 10% service related); available from local Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs offices.

OR unless you are:

? An Illinois resident on active duty and on leave from the

U.S. Armed Forces.

? A landowner or tenant residing on farm lands, or the

children, parents, brothers and sisters permanently residing on such lands, and hunting only the lands resided on. Landowners/Tenants are required to obtain a Habitat Stamp, unless exempt.

Habitat Stamp: Before any person 18 years of age or older takes, attempts to take, or pursues a deer, he or she shall first obtain a State Habitat Stamp. Disabled veterans and former prisoners of war shall not be required to obtain a State Habitat Stamp. Any person who obtained a Lifetime license before January 1, 1993, shall not be required to obtain a State Habitat Stamp. Licenses/stamps are available at IDNR Direct Automated License System agents, by phone at 1-888-6PERMIT or dnr..

CLOTHING

Any person taking or attempting to take deer by use of a firearm shall wear, when in the field, a cap and upper outer garment of solid blaze orange or solid blaze pink color, displaying a minimum of 400 square inches of blaze orange or blaze pink material.

IT IS UNLAWFUL:

a. to possess a rifle in the field during gun deer season EXCEPT muzzle-

loading rifles used by deer hunters only. No person may have in his possession any firearm not authorized by administrative rule for a specific hunting season when taking deer.

b. for any person having taken the legal limit of deer by firearm to further

participate with a firearm in any deer hunting party.

c. to drive deer, or participate in a deer drive, on all Department-owned or

managed properties. A deer drive is defined as a deliberate action by one or more persons (whether armed or unarmed) whose intent is to cause deer to move within firearm range of one or more participating hunters. For more details regarding deer hunting laws, please refer to the Hunting Digest, contact the Permit Office at 217-782-7305, or DNR Law Enforcement at 217-782-6431.

LEGAL HUNTING DEVICES

? Shotguns, loaded with slugs only, of not larger than 10 nor smaller than 20 gauge, not capable of firing more than three consecutive slugs; or

? Single- or double-barreled muzzleloading rifles of at least .45 caliber shooting a single projectile through a barrel of at least 16 inches in length;

? Centerfire revolvers or centerfire single-shot handguns of .30 caliber or larger with a minimum barrel length of 4 inches.

? On private land only, archery equipment may be used with a FIREARM permit ONLY during the Firearm Seasons Nov. 20-22 & Dec. 3-6.

*** Additional Muzzleloading Regulations*** ? A muzzleloading rifle is defined as a rifle that is incapable of being

loaded from the breech end.

? Only black powder or a "black powder substitute" such as Pyrodex may be used. Modern smokeless powders (nitrocellulose-based) are an approved black powder substitute only in muzzleloading firearms specifically designed for their use.

? Only percussion (cap or primer), wheellock, matchlock, flintlock or electronic ignition may be used.

? Removal of percussion cap/primer; removal of prime powder from frizzen pan with frizzen open and hammer all the way down; removal of prime powder from flashpan and wheel unwound; removal of prime powder and match with match not lit; or removal of the battery from the electronic ignition shall constitute an unloaded muzzleloading rifle.

LEGAL AMMUNITION

? For shotguns and muzzleloading firearms, the minimum size of the projectile shall be .44 caliber. A wad or sleeve is not considered a projectile or a part of the projectile.

? For handguns, a bottleneck centerfire cartridge of .30 caliber or larger with a case length not exceeding 1.4 inches, or a straightwalled centerfire cartridge of .30 caliber or larger, both of which must be available as a factory load with the published ballistic tables of the manufacturer showing a capability of at least 500 foot pounds of energy at the muzzle.

? Non-expanding, military-style full metal jacket bullets cannot be used to harvest white-tailed deer; only soft point or expanding bullets (including copper/copper-alloy rounds designed for hunting) are legal ammunition.

HUNTING AREA

The specific county or hunt area for which the permit is issued. Permission to hunt on private property must be obtained from the property owner or tenant. For Property-Only Hunting (landowner) permit holders, the hunting area is all land owned, leased or rented in the counties open for deer hunting. A hunting rights lease, or other nonagricultural lease, is not valid as a basis for obtaining a Property-Only Hunting permit.

BAG LIMIT: One deer per legally authorized permit. No hunter, regardless of the quantity or type of permits in his/her possession, may harvest more than 2 antlered deer during a year, including the Youth, Archery, Muzzleloader and Firearm Seasons. For purposes of this bag limit, deer seasons are considered to be in the same year if their opening dates fall within the same 12-month period that begins July 1. A hunter in possession of an either-sex permit after having harvested 2 antlered deer during a year may only use the permit to harvest an antlerless deer. Subject to this restriction, an either-sex permit holder is allowed to take a deer with or without antlers during the legal season. An antlerless-only permit holder is allowed to take only a deer without antlers or a deer having antlers less than 3 inches long during the legal season.

2020 FIREARM DEER CHECK STATIONS IN CWD-TESTING COUNTIES

Refer to the back of your deer permit for detailed instructions on tagging your deer.

Testing of deer for Chronic Wasting Disease by IDNR personnel will occur (so long as funding is available) during the 7-day Firearm Deer Season (Nov. 20-22 and Dec. 3-6) in:

1) counties where deer have been documented with the disease.

2) counties considered high risk for the disease, and/or

3) counties in which additional surveillance is warranted. In the counties listed in the table below, hunters shall take their whole (or field-dressed) deer to a designated firearm deer check station by 8 p.m. on the day the deer was killed. A permanent harvest tag will be attached to the leg of the deer upon registration at the check station. If a hunter is not able to locate a harvested deer in sufficient time to enable reporting the harvest by 8 p.m., the hunter must take the deer to the appropriate check station upon its opening at 8 a.m. the following morning, or immediately upon retrieving it if that occurs later than the opening of the check station. If this situation occurs on a Sunday (e.g. the check station will not be open on Monday), the hunter must contact the appropriate regional IDNR Law Enforcement Office by 10 a.m. Monday morning for instructions on checking in the deer. If the head/antlers are delivered to a taxidermist for processing, the temporary harvest tag must accompany the head/antlers and be kept with the head/antlers while at the taxidermist. If the carcass is taken to a meat processor, the permanent harvest tag must remain attached to the leg of the deer until it is processed, then must remain with the processed deer until it is at the legal residence of the person who legally took or possessed the deer. Persons delivering deer/parts of deer to a tanner for processing must supply the tanner with their deer permit number to verify lawful acquisition. In the absence of a permit number, the tanner may rely on the written certification of the person from whom the deer was received that the specimen was legally taken or obtained.

Changes in Check Station locations will be publicly announced

Boone

Boone Co. Fairgrounds

1/2 mi. N. of Rt. 76 and Bus. Rt. 20, Belvidere

Carroll

Mississippi Palisades State Park

3 miles N of Savanna at 16327 IL Route 84

DeKalb

Shabbona Lake State Park

4201 Shabbona Grove Rd., Shabbona

Grundy JoDaviess Kane Kankakee

Gebhard Woods State Park

Elizabeth Community Bldg. Use Boone, DeKalb, Kendall, or McHenry check station Kankakee River State Park Visitors Center

401 Ottawa Street, Morris 210 N. West St., Elizabeth 1/2 mi. W. of business district on Hwy. 20, next to Highland C.C. Elizabeth campus

4 mi. NW of Bourbonnais at 5214 W. State Rt. 102

Kendall

Silver Springs State Park

4.5 mi. W. of Yorkville at 13608 Fox Road

LaSalle Livingston McHenry Ogle Stephenson Will Winnebago

Buffalo Rock State Park

Pontiac Sportsman's Club Moraine Hills State Park McHenry Dam Day Use Area Castle Rock State Park County Fairgrounds Des Plaines Game Propagation Center Rock Cut State Park

3 mi. W. of Ottawa on Dee Bennett Road 1/2 mi. N.W. of Livingston Co. Ag Fairgrounds at 18663 4-H Park Road., Pontiac (just west of I-55) East of McHenry on River Rd., 2.2 mi. S. of Rt. 120

Rt. 2, 3 mi. S. of Oregon 1 mi. E. of Rt. 26 and Fairgrounds Rd., Freeport East of I-55 at 30550 S. Boathouse Road, Wilmington 6425 Hart Rd., Loves Park: 0.9 mi. E. of N. Perryville Rd. on Hart Rd.

? Unfilled Property-Only Hunting (Landowner) Firearm Deer Permits are valid during the Muzzleloader Season (with a muzzleloading rifle) and also during the Late-Winter/Special CWD seasons (in counties open to the Late-Winter and CWD Seasons).

? Any unfilled Firearm, Muzzleloader or Youth permits except Special Hunt Area permits that were valid during the previous Firearm, Muzzleloader-Only or Youth seasons are valid during the CWD Season (in counties open to CWD Season).

? Hunters shall not have in their possession, while in the field during deer season, any deer permit issued to another person. ? It is illegal to use salt, corn or any other kind of bait. An area is considered as baited during the presence of and for 10 consecutive days

following the removal of bait. NOTE: Feeding deer is also illegal, although there are certain exemptions such as food plots. Consult the Hunting Digest for more complete information. ? Permits will not be reissued in cases involving deer taken which are found to be diseased or spoiled due to previous injury. Legal disposal of unfit deer taken shall be the responsibility of the hunter. ? In those counties where deer hunting is permitted, it is unlawful to hunt or trap any species protected by the Wildlife Code, except migratory waterfowl, unless the blaze orange or blaze pink clothing required for deer hunters is worn during the firearm deer seasons. ? It is unlawful to take or attempt to take deer: a. in excess of the legal limit; b. during closed season; c. by use of dogs*, horses, automobiles, aircraft, boats or other vehicles. ***This does not prohibit the use of a leashed dog to track wounded deer.*** ? Totally white white-tailed deer are protected by Illinois Law and are illegal to kill.

FIREARM OWNERS I.D. CARD (Issued by Illinois State Police): Regardless of who owns the gun, anyone who has a firearm, including muzzleloaders, or firearm ammunition in their possession must have in their possession a valid Firearm Owners' I.D. (FOID) Card unless he or she is: a) A licensed out-of-state-sportsman hunting in Illinois, or b) Under the age of 21 and under the immediate control of a parent, guardian, or responsible adult who has in their possession a valid FOID Card. For more FOID Card Information, contact ISP at 217-782-7980.

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